List #338: Excerpts from pages in my Journal circa 1992-1993

List #338: Excerpts from pages in my Journal circa 1992-1993 {I left out a lot of the Juicy bits}

1. Jan 7, 1992: Pretty boring day not much happened {first entry}

2. May 23, 1992: I saw Marisa today and Beth anher [sic] weird friends too... I Freaked nat about the Punisher today. It was funny. T.F.T.D. Smile :)

3. August 1, 1992: ...I want to be in the olympics but I know I won't but I'm going to try any way. {during the Barcelona summer games. This also talked about Basketball, Swimming and Gymnastics...weird}

4. Jan 28, 1993: ...Today I missed algebra and homeroom to go swimming w/Paul and dave. It was really fun. We played deep water water polo... Monday is my Birthday.

5. June 26, 1993: ... Campfire was sad. "Flicker" is a good song. Jeremy is funny. He's writing My letter. I'll always remember this week and everything in it. I wish I could stay another week -Get'm in the Mind... {this was the end of my last week as a camper. I do remember quite a bit about that week}

6. Aug 5, 1993: Nat sang last night. It was great. Saw Chad from camp. {not that Chad, though. I didn't know him yet}

7. Oct 8, 1993: Debate will be neat. Spam named Ed. Hans is cool. I like school. Drawing is fun. {"drawing" was an Art elective. Hans is still cool}

8. Oct 31, 1993: Halloween. Tami came over. It was nice to see her. Trick or treating was good. I still have Chicken Pox but I might have a mild case thats almost gone. its weird.

9. Nov 20, 1993: ... I'm 23-18 (24-17?). Whole team did well. Dave lettered. Dave and Jeremy are sick people. {this was about Debate}

10. Dec 18, 1993: Moundsview was the Best Tourney yet [.] Stayed at the Hyatt with fountains and credit card keys... Alison and Sarah V. killed Melanie's fish...
{this was a rather epic length entry... a lot of stuff happened that weekend}

List #228: 7 Important Facts You need to Know about Jeremy

List #228: 7 Important Facts You need to Know about Jeremy

1. Your Mom and Dad will like him because he calls them Mr. and Mrs. (except my Mom won't like it)
2.He Knows Things
3. He weighs 2013 pounds and is a founding member of the Fat Boy Society
4. He is 113% Irish
5. He has an awesome family and a super cool house
6. He has to sleep with the window open and a fan blowing even when it's 20-below (and he steals the covers too
7. He understands all of the Girl Rules

List #227: Favorite NFL Memories

List #227: Favorite NFL Memories (that's National Forensics League beeatches)

1. The "Drugs for Creativity" Bill in Congress
2. The Crowbar of Justice vs Grand Rapids
3. Quoting "Bambi," Primus, Miles Davis and "The Lost World" in rounds
4. When Jeremy had to use my Case against me because his briefcase was locked and RB was the judge
5. Pretending to be Jeremy for one round at Zenith City
6. The overly high concentration of pyromaniacs
7. Stanley the Wiffle Ball
8. THEOOTBSC
10. The make-up room and Jackson 5 at the FLake Speech Tournament
11. When Jeremy got a 10th place trophy at Red Wing debate when I actually placed 7th but the ballot room messed up
12. Winning plaques in Congress
13. Getting Tilden nominated for Nationals for Congress (with the "man of great Scope" sonnet)
14. Lakeville Debate Camp
15. Being kicked off the team, and having Dave get me reinstated (and he made the coach cry)
16. 2 years of Creative Depres...I mean Expression for speech using epic Poetry I wrote in Middle School (one was a poem somewhat similar to Lion/Witch/Wardrobe but set in a gym locker instead of a wardrobe. The other began "Now Gather 'round children / and sit at my feet / and I'll tell you the tale of / The nightmare on Sesame street" and involved Freddy Kruger, a lot of Mace and Super Grover)
17. Taking 2nd place at our home meet the first time I did Original Oratory (about dinosaurs, decluttering and stress)
18. Giving back to back aff/neg speeches in congress rebutting myself
19. The mints, the Mint and the still life with silver platter
20. Arguing by analogy (esp. the House of Cards analogy deconstruction against Maggie Weller)
21. Novice meets
22. Trivial Pursuit in a Can
23. Overnight tournaments almost every weekend
24. The girl with the blue hair at the first debate tournament of junior year
25. Writing my case on the bus, with a scissors and gluestick for the tournament in #24
26. Eating a Habanero (and a lot of dirty snow) tagging along to watch NFLs for speech freshman year.
27. Ethos and Toy Store
28. Meeting pretty much all of my best friends in HS! People I still love and respect to this day.
29. Making semifinals at Zenith City my sophomore year
30. Having a Briefcase, Wearing a tie to school, talking to walls
31. Being told by a judge that "your second rebuttal" was a work of art, when I had really just made it up as I went along
32. Passing notes in Congress
33. Getting my Quad Ruby pin
34. Cool people on other teams
35. Enemies on other teams
36. The malleable rules of Seniority
37. Learning that it's a severe crime to make cool goggles out of a coathanger and two hotel-door peep-holes
38. The Shaft of Wisdom, it's Velvet sheath (and the year it spent in a hotel)
39. Learning more useful research/writing/structuring-an-argument/being-prepared-for-college skills than from any AP class.
40. Probably a ton of other awesome memories: if you remember anything, feel free to post!